"You've Got a Friend in Me": A Formal Understanding of the Critical Friend Agent

Joel Wester; Andreas Brännström; Juan Carlos Nieves; Niels Van Berkel

doi:10.1145/3623809.3623957

"You've Got a Friend in Me": A Formal Understanding of the Critical Friend Agent

Joel Wester, Andreas Brännström, Juan Carlos Nieves, Niels Van Berkel

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Abstract

State-of-the-art intelligent and interactive agents, such as Alexa or Siri, often present overly conforming behaviour during interactions with humans. This can result in a misalignment between end-user expectations and agent behaviour. To overcome this barrier in human-AI interactions, we introduce the Critical Friend (CF), a conceptual idea that guides critical behaviour in human-human interactions. We present our results as a formal understanding that can be described through description logic and utilised for reasoning capabilities, enabling implementations of the CF as an intelligent interactive agent.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HAI 2023 - Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
Number of pages	3
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication date	4 Dec 2023
Pages	443-445
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-4007-0824-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3623809.3623957
Publication status	Published - 4 Dec 2023
Event	11th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2023 - Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 4 Dec 2023 → 11 Dec 2023

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Conference	11th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2023
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Gothenburg
Period	04/12/2023 → 11/12/2023

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agent
characterisation
Critical Friend
formal understanding

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Wester, J, Brännström, A, Nieves, JC & Van Berkel, N 2023, "You've Got a Friend in Me": A Formal Understanding of the Critical Friend Agent. in HAI 2023 - Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 443-445, 11th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden, 04/12/2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623809.3623957

"You've Got a Friend in Me": A Formal Understanding of the Critical Friend Agent. / Wester, Joel; Brännström, Andreas; Nieves, Juan Carlos et al.
HAI 2023 - Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023. p. 443-445.

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